BOROUGH COUNCIL'S RESOLUTION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 15 November 1913, Page 4

BOROUGH COUNCIL'S RESOLUTION.

To the Editor

Sir, —As reported in last night's Star, the .Borough Council on Wednesday night passed a resolution recording its appreciation of the large number of special constables who left this borough and district, for the purpose of maintaining "law and order" in Wellington. Apparently all the councillors who took part in the discussion deemed it necessary to proclaim themselves on the side of law and order —a, sentiment that might surely have been taken for granted in.City Fathers. Now, even 1, a mere outsider, believe in law and order, but I also" believe in calling things by their proper names, and if I were a "cockie" who had gone to Wellington to help get my produce to market, I wouldn't claim that I went there to maintain "law and order," and further, I wouldn't thank anyone to claim it for me. I think the farmers themselves will admit that they set out for Wellington because the strike was hitting them in the pockets, and they wanted to stop it—and more' power to them for taking their own part, say I. But I can't swallow the idea that the abstract principle of maintaining law and order would have taken them all the way to Wellington. Further, I don't believe that the big majority of them would urge that statement on their own Behalf. Why, then, the necessity for sounding the loud timbrel over men who were, after all, looking after their own interests? \ ANTI-HUMBUG. November 14. [Nevertheless some of the best informed men in Wellington hold, as la merchant put it in Friday"s Star, : "Bui for the presence of these mounted specials this city would have been in a state of chaos."—Ed.]